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The Corruption of Government

Chapter 4 talks about the false information revealed to the United States by the Iraqi National Congress by Ahmed Chalabi. This information led us to invade Iraq because we though Saddam developed a nuclear weapons program. The nuclear weapons had a lot to do with the September 11th terrorist attacks. The chapter also mentions how the INC did a good job in fooling the U.S. Under President Clinton, the CIA and State Department had formed a negative view of the INC and declined the funding by Congress. But once George W. Bush ascended to the White House as president, Chalabi and the INC were guaranteed U.S. funding and “friends” in the White House and Pentagon. Chapter 5 talks about the arguments of why we choose to go to war and how it’s hard to get out of the war now. How we got in the war was false accusations of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass. There were also false accusations of Saddam Hussein having connections with Al-Queda, which was also false information. The Bush administration tried to avoid the blame by stating, “everybody else was wrong too.” It is scary to think that there are so many views of the war and so many reasons why this war should have never started. We fully trust the government when it comes to war, and when the government makes a mistake they should take full responsibility. It’s sad that the government thinks they are better than everyone else and won’t admit their mistakes. How can the public trust their leaders?